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In spring 2014, a group of students from Dresden, Ontario went to Inukjuak, Quebec for a week-long exchange that saw friendships made, new areas of Canada explored and memories made for a lifetime. Katelyn, one of the students from Dresden, writes about her experience for us.

During the week of March 30th to April 5th, I went with 14 other students up to the northern Quebec village of Inukjuak. While I was there, I saw and learned about a part of Canada that I didn’t know about before. The experience was amazing. The history about Inukjuak and the Inuit people was really interesting. I did so many things up in Inukjuak that i would have never gotten the chance to do in Dresden. I got to watch an igloo being built, I got to ice fish, I got to dogsled, I saw some Inuit Games demonstrations, and I saw the beauty of Inukjuak. The people in Inukjuak are very kind and were very welcoming to all of us “Dresden-Miut”(meaning those from Dresden).

I made some friends up in Inukjuak that weren’t on the exchange, and I still keep in contact with them. While I was up in Inukjuak, I got to try some of the food that they eat up there. I actually really liked caribou meat. I think I learned a lot more about Canada that I didn’t know before. I learned about the relocation of the Inuit people, and how they lived before everything they have now. A part that I thought was cool was that most of the people in Inukjuak ride ski-doos everywhere. That was awesome.

I think that Canada is an amazing country, with a mixture of people and climate. You could fly north to experience the cold, then fly south to experience the heat. The history that is based off of the Inuit people is really cool and interesting to learn about. I would love to go back up to Inukjuak, and I plan on going back up in the future, more than once. This exchange has helped me make friendships with people who are in a different part of Canada, and I will keep those friendships for as long as I live.

Group picture in Inukjuak…with an igloo. | Notre groupe a Inukjuak…avec un igloo.